Caress Via Cell Phone

Sound is so 20th century with this new phone concept that transmits touch.

Love and technology going together like horse and carriage in the future? Check. Feeling slightly creeped out after glimpsing what this marriage might actually look like? Check.

A Finnish firm called Provoke is showing off a new mobile phone prototype that connects users through touch. The soft-backed phone transmits contact between callers, so you could play a game of thumb war — or something like that — with your lover from afar.

Watch the video below to get a better sense of how this concept works, but beware that the phones in action look kind like the guy's stomach in "Spaceballs" right before the little alien pops out.